The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-28

which has not been noticed for week. The
sented an animated scene Hunoreds
Of non-union men were on hand.
eagerly waiting TO be called by Reading
officials in case their services should be
wanted. Some had previously been employed
on the road. while others were inexperienced
Among the number were men who belonged TO
the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers but
who had lost their positions in the disastrous
strike Of 1877, and who are at present engaged
In other industries. They, too. were waiting a
summons, but their services were not needed.
1t was nearly noon when several scores OF en-
gines were gotten out of the round-houses at
Pottsville, Reading. Pottstown, and other
places. and sent down the road to move the side
tracked coal trains to Port Richmond. The cars
between Reading and Philadelphia will first be
moved. These contain twenty Thousand tons
of coal, all of which will be dumped on the
started earlier in the forenoon The business
community of the entire Schuylkill valley re-
Joices In the settlement of the strike.
So promptly were the coal cars taken on to Port
Richmond and unloadeG, that to might the first
empty coal trains passed through Reading
bound for the coal regions. The most exciting
scenes OF the strike were witnessed this after
noon. when about twenty-five old brotherhood
engineers, who were obliged to leave the COM
pany's employ in 1877, were given engines and
permanent positions. They took the places OF
engineers who either failed to report because
they live too far away, or had refused to take
out engines and were psremptorily discharged.
Every man who had, during the past week. re-
fused to obey orders. or who had left his post
because of the knights of Labor orders, was
refused employment. There were quite a large
number Of these, and some of the appeals made
to get back were pitiful to hear. Non-union
men. ready to take the strikers places, filled
Reading to-day, from neighboring towns by the
hundred.
SHAMoKIN. Dec. 27-The Reading strikers
at this point refused to return to work
to-day because the company would not re-em-
ploy dispatcher Huntley, master workman of an
assembly, and several laborers the coal
docks who had been discharged. 1t is not pos
sIble to move the coal local freight traffic
under present circumstances, and therefore the
colieries will not be worked tomorrow. Con.
siderable ill-feeling is manifested.
PoTTsvILLE. Dec. 27.-From some cause. the
order to the Reading strikers at this point to
return to work did not reach here until the mid
die of the forenoon, and when the crews belong
ing to the Palo Alto terminus reported for duty
they found that severa! trains had been sent out
with new crews, and they were informed that,
under the orders of Manager Mcleod, they
could not be taken on. A meeting of Assembly
locked out; the Port Richmond assembly was
called on to stand by them, and an appeal was
made to Superintendent Sweigard to counter
mand the action of the Palo Alto dispatcher.
A committee sent to Philadelphia to confer
with Superintendent Sweigard in reference to
resum ption of work by tine strikers, returned to
this city this evening and reported that Mr..
Sweigard had insisted upon the peremptory dis
charge OF the committee who first waited upon
him with reference to the Port Richmond
trouble, together with the five crews who re-
fused TO handle the -four The committee
consented 10 this and then asked a guarantee
that all other strikers would be re-employed.
This Superintendent Swegard refused, and the
conference abruptly terminated. This report
greatly incensed the meeting and a result
committees left here to night for all points south
as far as Philadelphia and north to Tamaqua.
Shamokin and Mahanoy Plane, to appeal to the
local assemblies to stand by the discharged stri-
kers. and it is expected that general tfe-up
along the whole line will be re-inaueurated to-
morrow. A meeting of the Reading Employees
Convention, composed of representatives of rail-
road employees and miners at the Reading Coal
and Iron Companys collieries will assemble in
Reading on Thursday. at which it is intimated
by leading Knights OF Labor here that unless a
settlement is reached the miners will be ordered
to strike, and the passenger train crews will be
called out Intense interest is felt here in the
developments of tomorrow morning, but there
are many who are disinclined to believe that the
knights along the line who have been re-em-
ployed will consent to strike again.